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MS – Manuscript Series

This list contains details of individual manuscript items held to the archive of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. All items on this list are subject to the access conditions laid out in the Heritage Centre Guidelines. Copying of archive material is subject to the conditions laid out in the Heritage Centre Copying Guidelines MS/1 World Health Organisation Stamps

Extent: 1 item Creator: World Health Organisation Description: Sheet of headed note paper from the World Health Organisation with nine stamps issued to mark the first meeting of the World Health Organisaiton, all the stamps are franked Geneve 24.VI.48

24 June 1948

MS/2 Smallpox First Day Cover

Extent: 2 items Creator: The Department of Posts and Telegraphs Description: First day cover issued by the Irish post office to mark the global eradication of small pox.

18 September 1978

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MS/3 First National Congress of Tropical Medicine Commemorate Stamps Extent: 22 pages Creator: Ministerio do Ultramar, Lisboa Description: Printed booklet, containing commemorative stamps, issued to mark the first national congress of tropical medicine held in Lisbon in 1952. Text is in Portuguese, French and English Language: English French Portuguese

1952

MS/4 General Bill of all the Christinings and Burials in

London or Bills of Mortality Extent: 2 items Creator: Company of Parish-Clerks of London Description: Printed sheets showing the returns made by the Company of Parish Clerks of London for all christenings and burials in that city between 15 December 1685 and 14 December 1686, and between 14 December 1686 and 13 December 1687. The number of burials and christenings are details be parish, there are also details giving a breakdown of the causes of deaths.

14 December 1685-13 December 1687

MS/5 Notes on Pathology

Extent: 56 pages Creator: Corrigan, Sir Dominic John, 1802-1880

1824-1825

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Description: Softbound volume containing manuscript lecture notes on pathology made by Dominic Corrigan while a medical student.

MS/6 Irish Medical Schools and Graduates Association

Extent: 4 items Creator: McCullagh, William McKim Herbert, 1889-1964 Rowlette, Robert James, 1877-1944 Description: Two letters to Dr Rowlette from W McKim H McCullagh, the Hon. Metropolitan secretary of the Association informing him of his selection as President of the Association, with a printed list of Association members from 1938, and a letter from [L Kidd] about the Association's President's Badge.

1938-1939

MS/7 The League of Nations Society of Ireland

Extent: 4 pages Creator: The League of Nations Society of Ireland Description: Printed publicity leaflet no 12 of the society, giving details of the league, extracts from the society's constitution, its objectives and the names of the President, Council and Committee.

1 January 1925

MS/8 National Planning Conference Extent: 2 items Creator: The National Planning Conference

October 1942, July 1943

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Description: Information bulletins issued by the National Planning Conference. Bulletin 2, October 1942, 'Planning foundations - Some Vital Facts and Symptoms' and Bulletin 6, July 1943, 'The Handbook of National Planning and Reconstruction'.

MS/9 Scheme for the Application of the Fund ... in favour of

the Richmond National Institution for Instruction of Industrious Blind Extent: 12 pages Creator: William Goddard & Son, Law Agent Description: Printed 'Scheme for the application of the fund bequeathed by the late Rev. Edward Pepper, as settled by the court in favour of the Richmond National Institution for Instruction of Industrious Blind', relating to the Chancery case between Thomas St. George Pepper and the Attorney General for Ireland.

23 April 1874

MS/10 St Patrick's Ambulance Association

Extent: 14 pages Creator: St Patrick's Ambulance Association Description: Printed rules and regulations for local committees of the St Patrick's Ambulance Association.

[early twentieth century]

MS/11 Irish Medical Association Report and List of Members

Extent: 60 pages

1881

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Creator: Irish Medical Association Description: Printed report and list of members of the Association for 1881, with details of the objectives of the association and a membership form.

MS/12 The Dublin Gymnasium

Extent: 4 pages Creator: The Dublin Gymnasium Description: Printed flyer for the Dublin Gymnasium on Earlsfort Terrace, with details of teaching staff, term times, uniforms and the programme of classes available.

1902

MS/13 Statement of the Irish Medical Schools & Graduates

Assocation Extent: 16 pages Creator: Irish Medical Schools and Graduates Association Description: Printed statement by the Association on the exclusion from hospital appointments in England of candidates holding the higher qualifcations of the Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons of Ireland, with details of the regulations for membership of the English and Irish Colleges.

1888

MS/14 Letter from John Henry Foley

Extent: 3 pages Creator:

18 March 1873

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Foley, John Henry, 1818-1874 Stokes, Margaret, 1832-1900 Description: Letter from John Henry Foley to Miss [Margaret] Stokes about the statue of her father Dr Stokes, which Foley was working on for the King and Queen's College of Physicians of Ireland.

MS/15 Dun's Hospital Case Books

Extent: 2 items Creator: Unknown Description: Two softbound manuscript case book kept by an unknown doctor or medical student, recording cases in Dun's Hospital at an unknown hospital. As well as the case notes there are manuscript notes on 'Doctor Boyton's Lectures' and some prescriptions.

1807-1809

MS/16 Apothecaries Resident in Dublin

Extent: c. 98 pages Creator: Willis, Thomas, [d.1876] Description: Softbound volume containing alphabetical arranged list of all apothecaries resident in Dublin from 1740 to c.1850, list gives name and location on shop. At the reverse of the volume is an additional alphabetically arranged list of abstracts of marriage licences in the consistorial court, Dublin, issued to medical practitioners from the seventeenth century to 1781.

c.1850

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MS/17 To Miss Helen Faucit Extent: 1 item Creator: Description: Mounted photograph of a letter of appreciation addresses to Helen Faucit for her representation of Antigone on the stage in Dublin, with 35 signatures several of which are of medical men.

1848

MS/18 Application for Professorship of Anatomy and Surgery

Extent: 6 pages Creator: Macartney, James, 1770-1843 Todderick, George Francis, b.1782 Description: Letter of application for the Professorship of Anatomy and Surgery in Trinity College Dublin, from James Macartney to George Todderick, as Registrar of the King and Queen's College of Physicians of Ireland. Letter contains a summary of Macartney's medical education and practice to date, including details of appointments and publications.

15 April 1813

MS/19 Letter to Robert Travers

Extent: 3 pages Creator: Travers, Robert, 1807-1888 Description: Letter from an unidentified doctor to Robert Travers arranging to meet to attend Robert Bentley Todd's

30 [September] 1836

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introductory lecture at King's College, and also at another time to introduce Travers to 'Moore'.

MS/20 Letter from John Cheyne to Edward Percival

Extent: 4 pages Creator: Cheyne, John, 1777-1836 Percival, Edward, d.1819 Description: Letter from Dr Cheyne to Dr Percival, giving his opinion on James Macartney's 'anatomical communication', which seems to relate to the morbid appearances of fever in a recent epidemic. Cheyne has found different appearances to Macartney, he suggests this may be due to the nature of the bodies dissected. Cheyne has worked on the bodies of those who died in House of Industry whereas Macartney has to rely on bodies provided by grave robbing.

2 December 1818

MS/21 Letter from Robert Graves to William Moore Extent: 1 page Creator: Graves, Robert James, 1796-1853 Moore, William Daniel, 1813-1871 Description: Undated note from Robert Graves to Willam Daniel Moore asking for his opinion on Robert Kane's paper and assistance in working out the formula, which Graves thinks may assist in his objections to the use 'of chemical nomenclature in medicine'.

20 May

MS/22 Letter from Whitley Stokes to his wife

Extent: 3 pages Creator:

22 June [1808]

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Stokes, Whitley, 1763-1845 Stokes, Mary Anne, fl early nineteenth century Description: Letter from Whitley Stokes to his wife Mary Anne to be open in the case of his death. The letter gives Mary Anne advice on how Whitley would like their children to be educated and also the religious community they should belong to, the dissenting communion of Stand Street, Dublin.

MS/23 Degree of John Cuppage Douglas

Extent: 1 membrane Creator: Trinity College Dublin Description: Degree certificate of MD awarded to John Cuppage Douglas by Trinity College Dublin

24 February 1810

MS/24 Indenture of Apprenticeship

Extent: 4 pages Creator: Ledwich, Thomas Hawkesworth, 1823-1858 Granville, Alexander Ravenscroft, fl.1850s Description: Indenture of apprenticeship made between Surgeon Thomas Ledwich and Alexander Granville. Ledwich agrees to teach Granville the practice of surgery over a period of five years for a payment of £95.

1 May 1853

MS/25 Thesis on Psoriasis

Extent: 78 pages Creator:

May 1951

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Pritchard, Raymond Moore, Description: Typescript of Pritchard thesis on 'Psoriasis - An investigation into the histology and cytology of psoriasis, with special reference to the process of keratinization in the disease and in normal skin; also a series of cases treated with arsenic', submitted to Trinity College for the degree of Doctor of Medicine.

MS/26 Examinations on Osler

Extent: 2 items Creator: St. Thomas's Hospital Gazette Description: Cuttings from the St. Thomas's Hospital Gazette containing light-hearted examination on Osler's Textbook of Medicine 4th and 10th editions.

1902, 1927

MS/27 William Harvey Tercentenary

Extent: 26 items Creator: Winter, William Arthur, 1868-1935 Description: File of invites, menus, programmes and other items relating to the tercentenary celebrations for the publication of Harvey's De Motu Cordis, held in London in May 1928 and attended by Dr Winter as President of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. File also contains similar items from a conference on Rheumatic Diseases and annual meeting of the Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland which Dr Winter attended as part of the same trip.

May 1928

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MS/28 Medical Lecture Tickets Extent: 4 items Creator: Moore, John William, fl. 1800s Description: Entrance tickets for medical lectures attended by John William Moore; Experimental Chemistry at the Dublin Society, Anatomy and Surgery at Trinity College Dublin and Dr Wilkinson's Philosophical Lectures.

1801-1806

MS/29 Indenture of Apprenticeship

Extent: 1 page Creator: Leney, William, fl. 1820s Holmes, John, fl. 1820s Description: Indenture of apprenticeship between William Leney surgeon and apothecary of Strabane, county Tyrone and John Holmes.

1 October 1824

MS/30 Indenture of Apprenticeship

Extent: 1 page Creator: Wadsworth, Godfrey Bingley, fl. 1820s Woodcock, Michael, fl. 1820s Merchant, Francis, fl.1820s Description: Indenture of apprenticeship between Godfrey Wadsworth and Michael Woodcock and Francis Merchant surgeons and apothecaries of Hemsworth, York.

4 August 1828

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MS/31 Deed of Assignment and Co-partnership Extent: 4 pages Creator: Sinnett, Edward, fl.1820s Sinnett, Frederick, fl. 1820s O'Galligan, John, fl. 1820s Description: Deed of assignment and co-partnership in which Edward Sinnett gives a half share of the interest in his two medicines (French Pills and Doctor Sinnett's Cordial Balm) and the copyright of his book entitled Practical observations on ... Nervous Atrophy' to John O'Galligan for the some of one hundred pounds, and the other half share to his son Frederick Sinnett.

15 March 1823

MS/32 Reports of the National Vaccine Establishment

Extent: 2 items Creator: National Vaccine Establishment Description: Printed reports of the National Vaccine Establishment, as ordered by the House of Commons, dated May 1811 and March 1812

1811-1812

MS/33 Address to the Society of Metropolitan Medical

Officers of Health Extent: 4 pages Creator: Cameron, Sir Charles Alexander, 1830-1921 Description: Printed copy of Cameron's address to the Society at the Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin.

1881

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MS/34 Local Government Board's Prescribed List of Medical and Surgical Appliances Extent: 10 pages Creator: Local Government Board for Ireland Description: Order form for surgical and medical supplies with prices prescribed by the Local Government Board, for the use of the Unions' Boards of Guardians.

1904-1905

MS/35 Laboratory for Clinical Research

Extent: 4 pages Creator: Earl, H C Description: Advertising card for H C Earl's laboratory for clinical research on Leinster Street, card gives details of services offered and prices.

[1898]

MS/36 Correspondence of John William Moore and

Apothecaries Hall Extent: 3 letters Creator: Apothecaries' Hall of Ireland Moore, John William, 1845-1937 Description: Correspondence between the Apothecaries' Hall and John William Moore in relation to Moore's signature on a report of the Irish Medical Association relating to the status of Apothecaries' Hall. The Hall complains to Moore about his support of this report, in his draft reply Moore supports his actions and outlines why he

May - June 1879

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feels that the Hall are not suited to award licenses to practice medicine or pharmacy.

MS/37 Correspondence of Professor Lyle and Mr Atkins

Extent: 8 letters Creator: Atkins, [D], fl. 1890s Lyle, Professor, fl.1890s Description: Series of letters from Atkins, in Wanganella, New South Wales, to Professor Lyle regarding care of [his son] Dr Robert Lyle at the Rotunda Hospital. Letters refer to Atkin's investments on behalf of Professor Lyle. Series also contains one draft letter from Lyle to Atkins.

1899

MS/38 The Application of Wet Thermal Atmospheres to Man

Extent: 15 pages Creator: Lyburn, E F St. John Description: Typescript copy of paper, with covering letter, sent by Lyburn to the College.

28 January 1957

MS/39 Hypertension and Coronary Disease

Extent: 12 pages Creator: White, Paul Dudley, 1886-1973 Description: Typescript, with manuscript annotations, of a speech given by Dr White to the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland.

24 June 1957

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MS/40 The Changing Face of Medicine Extent: 9 pages Creator: Murphy, Cyril Description: Typescript of a speech given by Murphy giving a personal view of the changes he has seen in medicine since the commencement of his career in 1918.

October 1956

MS/41 Consumer Satisfaction with Maternity Services

Extent: c.150 pages Creator: Johnson, Zachary Description: Photocopy of a consumer satisfaction study carried out in Dublin Maternity Hospitals.

November 1984

MS/42 Report to the Minister for Health

Extent: c.100 pages Creator: The Irish National Council on Alcoholism Description: Typescript of the report submitted to the Minister for Health.

January 1973

MS/43 Irish Medical Students at Montpellier

Extent: c.100 pages Creator: Berlan, Helene,

2006

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Description: Photocopy of sections of Helene Berlan's thesis 'Faire sa medicine au XVIIIe siecle. Recrutement et devenir professional des estudiants montpellierains' dealing with Irish students of medicine at Montpellier University in the eighteenth century. File contians photocopies of the database records of the 72 Irish students identified by Berlan. The original thesis is in the Library of the University of Montpellier who provided this copy. Language: French

MS/44 Presentation to J W Bigger

Extent: 1 item Creator: Medical Research Council Description: Board, part of a large presentation, to Professor J W Bigger in gratitude for his service as honorary secretary of the Council, with the signatures of eight [council members].

March 1951

MS/45 Presentation to James Craig

Extent: 4 items Creator: Royal College of Physicians of Ireland Description: Papers relating to the arrangement for a photograph album of subscribers to be presented to James Craig, with the gift of a cabinet of silver plate, by the College. File includes official letters on the subject and a list of the signatures of subscribers.

1906

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MS/46 To T Gillman Moorhead Extent: 1 pages Creator: Gogarty, Oliver St John, 1878-1957 Description: Manuscript poem written, and signed by Gogarty, and addressed to his friend and colleague Thomas Gillman Moorhead at Christmas 1929.

December 1929

MS/47 Testimonial to R E Tottenham

Extent: 1 large item Creator: Tottenham, Richard Edward, b.1889 Description: Testimonial presented to Richard Edward Tottenham, professor of midwifery, by his pupils at the Hong Kong Tsan Yuk Hospital. With the testimonial is a translation.

4 May 1935

MS/48 Mary Alice Thorn Hearn

Extent: 1 large membrane Creator: Royal College of Physicians of Ireland Description: Certificate of election to Fellowship of the College of Mary Hearn, the first female Fellow.

18 October 1924

MS/49 Albert Ormsby Speedy

Extent: 1 large item 15 rolled items

c.1860s

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Creator: Speedy, Albert Ormsby, d.1919 Description: Certificates relating to the medical education of Albert Speedy.

MS/50 Alice O'Brien

Extent: 3 large items Creator: Local Government Board for Ireland Dublin Metropolitan Technical School for Nurses Dr Steevens' Hospital, 1720- Description: Certificates of nursing training awarded by Dr Steevens' Hospital to Miss Alice O'Brien (1912), certificate of registration as a trained nurse (1911), Certificate of attendence at the Dublin Metropolitan Technical School for Nurses (1909).

1911-1912

MS/51 Certificate of character

Extent: 1 item Creator: Dun, Sir Patrick, 1642-1713 Description: Certificate of character for Thomas Abraham, written and signed by Sir Patrick Dun.

5 July 1708

MS/52 John Robert Price

Extent: 2 membranes Creator: Trinity College Dublin Coombe Women's Hospital

1821, 1834

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Description: Medical certificates of John Robert Price, medical degree from Trinity College (1821) and license in midwifery from the Coombe Hospital (1834).

MS/53 Daniel McClure Ross

Extent: 3 membranes Creator: King and Queen's College of Physicians of Ireland Description: Certificates of Dr Ross, Licentiate in Medicine (1870), Licentiate in Midwifery (1870) and Membership (1879).

1870s

MS/54 Edward Dillon

Extent: 1 large membrane Creator: Coombe Women's Hospital Description: Certificate in obstetrics awarded by the Coombe to Edward Dillon

1831

MS/55 Death Certificates

Extent: 2 items Creator: Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages Description: Death certificates of Walter George Smith (1932) and Thomas Gillman Moorhead (1960).

1932, 1960

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MS/56 Medical Registration Certificates Extent: 2 items Creator: General Medical Council Description: Certificates of registration with the medical council Francis Charles Martley (1890) and Charles Edwin Cornwall (1891)

1890-1891

MS/57 Menu and table plan

Extent: 2 items Creator: Royal College of Physicians of Ireland Description: Menu and table plan for a dinner to be held in the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. No date is given but from the names of those attending it probably dates from the first decade of the twentieth century.

[1900s]

MS/58 College Certificates

Extent: 8 membranes Creator: King and Queen's College of Physicians of Ireland Description: Certificates of Licentiate in Midwifery of Henry MacNaughton Jones (1865), Licentiate in Medicine of Joseph FitzGerald (1873), Licentiate in Medicine and Membership of Robert Leonard Rutherford (1878, 1888), Licentiate in Medicine of Frederick William Smith Stone (1889), cancelled Licentiate in Medicine of James Charles McWalter (1899), Licentiates in Medicine and Midwifery of Patrick Michael Moriarty (1913)

1865-1913

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MS/59 Trinity College Medical Degrees Extent: 25 items Creator: Trinity College Dublin Description: Degree certificates of John Anderson (BM 1740). Clement Archer (BM 1756, MD 1760), Robert Archer (BM 1743, MD 1756), Thomas Brooke (BM 1753, MD 1753), Charles Burdon (BM 1756), Samuel Clossey (BM 1750), Thomas Ellis (BM 1756), George Fletcher (BM 1748/9, MD 1752), John Graydon (BM 1755), Archibold Hamilton (BM 1755), Ludo Kerr (BM 1757), Luke King (BM, DM 1753), Ezekiel Nesbit (MD 1740), Anthony Rhellan (DM 1743), John Robbins (BM 1758), John Sican (BM 1742), Robert Warren (BM 1742, MD 1747), Robert Wood (BM 1742, MD, 1745).

1740-1758

MS/60 Trinity College Medical Degrees

Extent: 2 membranes Creator: Trinity College Dublin Description: Degree certificates of Alexander Erck (1820) and Patrick Thompson (1822)

1820-1822

MS/61 Licentiates in Medicine

Extent: 4 membranes Creator: King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland Description: Certificates of Licentiates in medicine of Robert MacDonnell (1844), Thomas Nash (1849), William Peard (1850) and John Oliver Curren (1846)

1844-1850

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MS/62 George Seymore Russell Stitch Extent: 2 rolled items Creator: Stitch, George Seymore Russell, Description: Certificates of George Stitch, Licentiate in medicine from the Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons in Edinburgh and Glasgow (1892) and licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall of Ireland (1902).

1892-1902

MS/63 Robert Dickson

Extent: 21 rolled items Creator: Dickson, Robert Description: Certificates of Robert Dickson; BA from Trinity (1829), certificates of attendance at lectures in the Meath Hospital, Trinity College Dublin, Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital, University of Dublin, 19 South William Street and the School of Physic (1828-1831), diploma in obstetrics from the Coombe (1831), diploma from the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh (1832), diploma in obstetrics from the Rotunda (1838), diploma from the Society of Opthalmologists of Glasgow (1839).

1829-1832

MS/64 Robert Hickson Extent: 13 items Creator: Hickson, Robert Description: Certificates of Robert Hickson.

1834-1839

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MS/65 Roll of Governors of Apothecaries' Hall Extent: 2 rolled item Creator: Apothecaries' Hall of Ireland Description: Roll of signatures of those elected as governors of Apothecaries' Hall, with the oath to be taken on election.

1855-1895

MS/66 Michael Joseph Ryan

Extent: 2 rolled items Creator: Ryan, Michael Joseph, fl. 1880s Description: Certificates of Licentitates in medicine and midwifery from the King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland.

1886

MS/67 Membership and Fellowship Certificates

Extent: 5 items Creator: Royal College of Physicians of Ireland Description: Fellowship certificates of Una Prasanna Basu (1931), Charles Francis McCann (1944) and Vishwa Nath (1931), also Membership and Fellowship certificates of Eamon de Valera (1941 and 1944).

1931-1944

MS/68 Charles Stackley

Extent: 1 item

28 April 1838

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Creator: Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Description: Certificate of attendance at a course of dissection and anatomical demonstrations.

MS/69 John B Walters

Extent: 1 membrane Creator: Western Lying-in Hospital Description: Certificate of attendance at lectures in the Western Lying-in Hospital.

1843

MS/70 Hime Family Certificates Extent: 10 membranes Creator: Trinity College Dublin Description: Certificates from Trinity College Dublin awarded to Frederick Hime (1853), John Hime (1850), Robert Hime (1856) and Bartholomew Hime (1853-1862).

1850-1862

MS/71 Indenture of Apprenticeship

Extent: 4 pages Creator: Hesslegrave, Joseph Bradbury, Joseph Description:

18 October 1853

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Indenture of apprenticehip of Joseph Bradbury to Joseph Hesslegrave, surgeon.

MS/72 Moore Family Letters

Extent: 7 items Creator: Moore, Henry, 1784-1856 Moore, Charles, 1st Marquess Drogheda, 1730-1822 [Trench, William, 1769-1849] Description: Correspondence, and letter fragments, between members of the Moore family including a letter from William Trench to his sister Catherine, who was married to Hon. Ponsonby Moore, and two letters from Henry Moore to his father the Hon. Ponsonby Moore. Also one letter from Charles Moore to his brother Ponsonby.

1774-1814

MS/73 Letter from Willie Speedy

Extent: 4 items Creator: Speedy, William, fl.1860s Description: Letter from Willie Speedy to his father, written from Christ church, possibly a relation of Albert Speedy, file also contains four photographs which were found with the letter and Albert Speedy's certificates and may be of member of the Speedy family.

7 October 1863

MS/74 Licentiate certificate of Campbell Fair Extent: 1 membrane Creator: Royal College of Physicians of Ireland

7 August 1866

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Description: Licentiate of Medicine certificate awarded by the King and Queen's College of Physicians of Ireland to Campbell Fair. Two photographs of Dr Fair have been stuck to the certificate at a late date. See also BMS/? for Dr Fair's casebook.

MS/75 Deeds of Trust

Extent: 3 items Creator: Kyle, Samuel, c.1771-1848 Lloyd, Bartholomew, c.1772-1837 Mercer's Hospital, Dublin Description: Deeds of trust made between Kyle and Llyod, as the executors of the will of John Barrett, and Mercer's Hospital. Two copies of a deed dated 28 April 1826 leaving a sum of £1000 in trust 'for the use and benefit of the hospital', and a further deed made 20 April 1844 leaving an additional £1134.4.2 in trust for the use and benefit of the hospital.

1826, 1844

MS/76 John Stephen Doyle Extent: c.25 items in 4 folders and rolls Creator: Doyle, John Stephen, 1929-2004 Description: Educational and professional certificates of John Stephen Doyle, including his medical qualifications, membership of various medical Colleges, including the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland where he was President 1991-1993. File also contains a sheet of biographical data compiled by Doyle.

1950s-1980s

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MS/77 Charles Benson Extent: 9 items Creator: Benson, Charles, 1797-1880 Description: Letters of recomendation of Charles Benson from a series of Irish and French hospitals and teaching institutions, including a certificate signed by Laennec and one on behalf of Baron Cuvier. File also contains Benson's passport used during his training in France.

1821-1824

MS/78 Timotheous Haran

Extent: 1 folder 27 rolled items Creator: Haran, Timotheous, 1830-1904 Description: Papers of Timotheous Haran an Irish surgeon in the Royal Navy, contains medical education certificates, photographs and an obituary.

c.1840s-1904

MS/79 Royal City of Dublin Hospital, Resident Staff Extent: 1 item Creator: Royal City of Dublin Hospital Description: Mounted photograph of the resident staff of the Royal City of Dublin Hospital, taken outside the hospital in December 1934. Names on mount read: P O'Dwyer, D P Harris, A T Rouiller, D J Hayes, M Toohey, H Pringle, E Cowan, R L Oakes, G Rea Clarke, E J Hamilton, C H Crosbie (House Physicians), J

December 1934

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Hempenstall (House Surgeon), N Joyce, P Walsh and R Keith.

MS/80 Joseph Michael O'Ferrall

Extent: 1 item Description: Honorary certificate award to Joseph Michael O'Ferrall by Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine

22 August 1843

MS/81 Facade of Number 6

Extent: 2 items Creator: Grehan, Des, architect Description: Scale CAD (computer aided drawing) of the facade of Number 6 Kildare Street.

2011

MS/82 Ampicillin for Typhoid Carriers

Extent: c.90 pages Creator: Troy, Patricia, 1910-1970 Description: File of case notes of fever cases in the annex at Prestwick Hospital compiled by Dr Patricia Troy between 1949 and 1964. This material was used by Dr Troy in writing a piece for the British Medical Journal in 1964 on the use of Ampicillin for treating typhoid cases, a copy of this article is included in the file, with a number of request slips for copies of the article. The file also contains a photograph of Dr Troy taken in 1946, and an obituary from the British Medical Journal (1970).

c.1946-1970

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MS/83 A case of Klippel-Feil Syndrome

Extent: 2 items Creator: Troy, John J, Description: Typescript copy of a case of Klippel-Feil syndrome reported by Dr Troy when he was Senior Medical Officer to the London Borough of Hammersmith.The file also contains a photograph of Dr Troy, taken c.1940s.

c.1960

MS/84 Letter to Dr Faulkner

Extent: 2 pages Creator: Berkeley, Joshua, d.1807 Description: Letter from Joshua Berkeley, Dean of Tuam, to Dr Faulkner apologising for any 'expressions that may have escaped from him' on the previous Saturday and ascribing them to his 'violent agitation of mind' caused by the unexpected death of his most beloved sister.

29 February 1796

MS/85 Royal Hospital for Incurables Application for

Admission Extent: 4 pages Creator: Royal Hospital for Incurables, Donnybrook Description: Blank admisssion form for a female patient entering the Royal Hospital for Incurables.

[early twentieth century]

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MS/86 Receipt for a Rout Extent: 1 page Description: Manuscript containing humorous instructions for holding a rout (or party).

[nineteenth century]

MS/87 Some of the doctors of Georgian Dublin

Extent: 14 pages Description: Typescript of a talk on Georgian doctors given to an unnamed society. The typescript contains no details of who gave the paper, although it may have been Dr Kirkpatrick.

[early twentieth century]

MS/88 Advertisement

Extent: 1 page Creator: Dr Steevens' Hospital, 1720- Description: Advertisement for the letting of a field at Dolphin's Barn, belonging to Dr Steeven's Hospital

1 July 1735

MS/89 The Lying-In Hospital, Dublin. Abstract of the registry

Extent: 1 page Creator: Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, 1745- Description: Printed abstract from the registry of the Rotunda Hospital giving yearly totals from 1745 to 1861 of; Number of Patients Admitted; Received into chronic

[1862]

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wards; went out not delivered; delivered in the hospital; boys born; girls born; total number of children; women having twins or more; children died; children still born; women died; Master of Hospital; assistants.

MS/90 The Kirkpatrick Lecture

Extent: 16 pages Creator: McCormick, V O Description: Typescript of the inaugural Kirkpatrick Lecture, hosted by the Faculty of Anaesthetists, RCSI, given by Dr McCormick and looking at the life of Dr T P C Kirkpatrick

2 June 1967

MS/91 Wills's "First Aid" cigarette cards

Extent: 10 cards Creator: W.D. & H.O. Wills, 1786- 1988 Description: Cigarette cards with illustrations of various first aid methods including dressing a sprained ankle, placing patients on a stretcher, improvised stretcher of coats and of rope, foreign body in the ear, bleeding from the nose, course of arteries diagram, legs peppered with shot from a gun, finger bite from a dog or animal, how to extract a fish hook from the thumb.

[1915]

MS/92 [Adelaide Hospital] account books

Extent: 7 items Creators: Adelaide Hospital, Dublin, 1834-1996

1869-1945

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Pearson, William, 1882-1976 Harvey, William Geoffrey, 1877-1958 Bewley, Geoffrey, 1894-1981 Bewley, Henry Theodore, 1860-1945 Gordon, Thomas Eagleson, 1866-1929 Jackson, Robert Tennard Gunn, K E L-G Description: Bank books for the [Adelaide Hospital, its medical board, and for various doctors working at the hospital] for accounts held at the Royal Bank of Ireland and Ulster Bank. Books contain details of account balance, withdrawals and lodgements.

MS/93 Case notes from Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital

Extent: 4 items Creator: Parsons, Alfred Robert, 1864-1952 Watson, Edward John Macartney, 1872-1947 Description: Case note sheets for three patients attending Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital and seen by Dr Parsons, file also contains a letter from Dr Watson to Dr Parsons, dated 14 August 1897, relating to a patients seen at Dun's Hospital.

[1893-1897]

MS/94 Cholera map of Ireland, 1866

Extent: 1 item Creator: Haughton, Samuel, 1821-1897 Description: Map produced by Dr Samuel Haughton to demonstrate the spread of Asiatic cholera in Ireland in 1866. This map was produced ancillary to Haughton's article 'A scientific inquiry into some of the causes alleged to produce Asiatic cholera', published in the London

1867

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Medical Times and Gazette in 1867. In this article Haughton argued that cholera travels 'along the lines of human traffic, and improves its rate of locomotion as the facilities of human intercourse improve'. The map demonstrates the contact theory on the course of the cholera in Ireland, and its progressive appearance at various points.

MS/95 Medical diaries and visiting lists

Extent: 2 items Creator: Unknown Description: Medical diaries and visiting lists for 1902 and 1903, both contain records of which patients have been seen each day and in some cases more details on their condition and/or treatment. There are some occasional notes which relate to personal matters, for example a record of entering 'Harry' (presumably a son) as a medical student at the Cecilia Street Medical School. The name of the doctor who owned the diaries is not recorded.

1902-1903

MS/96 BCG Vaccination leaflet

Extent: 2 copies Creator: National BCG Committee Description: Printed promotional flyer, produced by the National BCG Committee, encouraging people not to forget their BCG Vaccination.

[1952]

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MS/97 Patient notification letter Extent: 1 item Creator: Cork Street Fever Hospital Description: Printed notification later, completed with patient details in manuscript, informing Mr Burke that his son Thomas Burke is 'lying dangerously ill in the epidemic house' of the hospital, and giving details of the visiting hours.

30 January 1933

MS/98 The Anchorite

Extent: 20 pages Creator: Rowntree, T Description: Newsletter produced by the patients at the Royal National Hospital for Consumption, Newcastle, Co. Wicklow and edited by T Rowntree. Newsletter includes pieces written by the patients and medical staff, including Noel Browne, as well as puzzles and advice on what to do to pass the time while in the hospital.

June/July 1947

MS/99 Certificate of Hannah McAlister

Extent: 1 item Creator: Rotunda Hospital Description: Certificate awarded to Hannah McAlister for regularly attending the hospital for 24 months and passing the examinations for 'Nursetenders (or Midwives)'

22 July 1948

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MS/100 Draft letter to the editors of The Lancet Extent: 2 pages Creators: Moore, Sir John William, 1845-1937 The Lancet Description: Draft manuscript letter from Sir John William Moore to the editors of The Lancet. In the letter Moore points out the admission of a work by Thomas Wrigley Grimshaw in bibliographical review of thermometry published in The Lancet of 22 January 1916.

15 February 1916

MS/101 Prescriptions and medical certificates

Extent: 5 items Creator: Dublin Health Authority Description: Three prescriptions issued to a Mrs Brady of Dublin (1932-3). Two blank Dublin Health authority forms, one for admission to St Kevin's Hospital the other for a sick certificate.

[1930s-1960s]

MS/102 Medical advertisements

Extent: 2 items Creator: William Hayes & Co, pharmaceutical chemists Pick-Me-Up, magazine Description: Printed advertisement for Earl's Fluid Pepsine, a remedy for indigestion and dyspepsia, recommended by Sir Charles Cameron, Sir Philip Smyly and William J

1893, [1910s]

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Wheeler, and available from William Hayes & Co, Dublin. Page from 'Pick-me-up' magazine 1893 with some medical related advertisements include advertisements for chlorodyne, a cure for deafness and hair removal.

MS/103 Irish College of General Practitioners Flyer

Extent: 4 pages Creator: Irish College of General Practitioners Description: Printed flyer for the newly former Irish College of General Practitioners. Flyer lays out the purpose and objectives of the new College, and calls for new members.

[1984]

MS/104 Robert Shaw Wayland

Extent: 3 items Creator: Wayland, Robert Shaw, d.1928 Description: Small collections of papers relating to Robert Shaw Wayland; - Booklet of printed testimonials to Robert Shaw Wayland from L Hepenstal Ormsby, Samuel R Mason, John William Moore, Sir William Stokes, Philip C Smyly, W J Hepburn, J H Wharton, Rawdon MacNamara and George H Porter, all dated 1890. - Studio photograph of Robert Shaw Wayland, [1890s] - Fee book of Robert Shaw Wayland for his anaesthetic practice in Dublin, 1915-1920.

[1890-1920]

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MS/105 AIDS leaflets Extent: 2 items Creator: Health Education Bureau Department of Health Description: - AIDS information booklet produced by the Health Education Bureau - Copy of Criteria for defining and diagnosing a case of AIDS and for the epidemiological surveillance of AIDS

[1980s]

MS/106 Practical Lectures

Extent: 78 pages Creator: Richmond, Whitworth and Hardwicke Hospitals, Dublin Description: Printed 'Practical Lectures - according to syllabus of General Nursing Council for Preliminary Examinations', produced by the Richmond, Whitworth and Hardwicke Hospitals. Copy is signed by Anna Felicitas Ryan, Nurses Home, Richmond Hosp., and has her manuscript notes throughout.

[mid twentieth century]

MS/107 Grant of arms to the Irish Society of Clinical

Microbiologists Extent: 1 parchment in presentation folder Creator: Gillespie, Fergus, Deputy Chief Herald of Ireland Description: Illuminated parchment grant of arms to the Irish Society of Clinical Microbiologists.

11 April 2003

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MS/108 An elegy on the death of the much lamented Doctor D M O'Brien Extent: 1 page Creator: Brereton, P, printer Description: Printed broadside of a poem entitled 'An elegy on the death of the much lamented Doctor D M O'Brien', with a woodcut illustration. Printers name is given as P Brereton, 1 Lr Exchange Street, Dublin.

[Nineteenth century]